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darbaga / Tolk-rs

Bindings to Tolk, a screen reader abstraction library, in rust
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Still interested in maintaining this? #2

Closed ndarilek closed 3 years ago

ndarilek commented 5 years ago

Hello,

I'm a blind Rust developer interested in contributing to this project. I'm using Tolk primarily for game development of audio games. Most recently, I'm trying to use it with godot-tts which in turn is used by my godot-accessibility plugin for the Godot game engine.

I realize this is a simple library, but I'd like to make it a bit easier to work with. I'd be interested in co-maintaining or taking over ownership completely--either way. I'd rather not fork the library if I can avoid it, but I'll probably need to in order to do some of the work I'd like.

Thanks.

darbaga commented 5 years ago

Hey.

Honestly, this was just a really rough project I threw together because I wanted to play with small Rust game stuff. I didn't expect it to really get noticed :)

I'd definitely be willing to transfer ownership. I haven't really had the time to do Rust-related things recently (and that won't change for quite a while) so co-maintenance really doesn't make sense.

Transferring repositories is easy..The difficult bit will be transferring ownership on the crates.io registry. I don't see any way to do that. I could intermittently publish new versions as you develop them, though this is suboptimal..probably what you'd want to do is publish the crates under a different name and link people to them.

Anyway, get back to me with your agreement and I'll transfer over the repos.

ndarilek commented 5 years ago

Cool, intermittent publishing wouldn't be a bad approach IMO. I don't imagine the burden will be too great for you since the library is fairly small, and I don't imagine making many changes. Thus far I'm thinking:

 * My PR made speech interruption a bit clearer, since using method names was a bit opaque.

 * It's recommended to either link against an installed library, or to compile vendored sources as part of a sys crate. I'd like to vendor a recent Tolk version and build it in the sys crate's build.rs, so instead of copying libraries around, the correct library for a given target is compiled alongside dependent crates and installed into target/. I have some experience doing this with spatialite-sys, which compared to Tolk is a bit of a monster. :) I imagine Tolk doesn't change very often, so it's probably safe to vendor a recent version.

Anyhow, I probably won't be interested in taking a stab at any of this for a few weeks, but I wanted to check if you were still interested in maintaining this project, because I definitely need it. :)